Re: Blackfin and version scripts

From:

Ralf Wildenhues

Subject:

Re: Blackfin and version scripts

Date:

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:08:31 +0200

User-agent:

Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22)

Hello Russ, all,
* Russ Allbery wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00:04PM CEST:
> I would dearly, dearly love for libtool to pick up a --version-script
> option that would pass in the full version script on platforms with
> linkers that understand it, turn it into a symbol export list on platforms
> that only support that,
is this doable programmatically? Without a full version script parser?
> and suppress it entirely if the linker doesn't
> have any relevant capabilities. That would save me a ton of maintenance
> burden on some of my packages, and it would then be easy to add a feature
> like the above as well.
Can somebody try to come up with a more detailed set of semantics, so we
can judge a bit better whether this is feasible? If it is, any
volunteers on implementing this?
Do you know the gnulib module lib-symbol-versions? (No, it's not a
complete solution.)
Thanks,
Ralf